Resting on a low ring foot, the inside of the dish is decorated with a wonderful flow of lotus flower, the back are finely depicted at intervals six storks flying and six clouds, on the basis you notice different written in Arabic characters and a five-pointed star in the center. The dish has a large central spinning with a small old restoration on the decoration, inside of the dish is a small cooking defect - diameter 40 cm.

Notes: A very similar dish is present in the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, object nr. TKS 15/1892. 

See Book Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, A complete catalog, Vol. 2, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains; Regina Krahl in Collaboration with Nurdan Erbahar, by John Ayens;Sotheby's Pubblication, p. 721 Fig. 1273.

Czerny's. CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART